The Glade 4.0

It's bad enough that I have to go into your sorry excuse for a store in the first place. That's just the price of having a teenage daughter for whom only very specific clothing styles are acceptable. It's worse that your merchandise is all priced completely outrageously. It's worse still that you seem to think I'm just another kid coming in to look for weird stuff to wear, when I'm clearly accompanying my daughter.

But really, when I tell you that she can't wear belts with a certain kind of metal in the belt buckle and ask "is this one hypoallergenic" or "do you have any with plastic buckles?", it'd be nice not to be looked at like I'm a total jackass for making a comment that doesn't relate to the Twighlight series, how much life in general sucks, or how the latest band is the great replacement for the last group of sellouts.

I can deal with the fact that you look like a total retard in your purple fuzzy coat, bright green pants, yellow-and-black-checkered-shoe-slipper-things, ear piercings that look like they were made with a 9mm pistol and enormous orange top hat that a muppet would be terrified to wear while I'm asking you my question.

I would however, appreciate an intelligent and reasonable answer. Even "I don't know" would suffice. Your companion at least knew that you had no belts with hypoallergenic buckles, but it might be nice if she could get it out without acting offended at the suggestion that style might not be the only consideration in shopping there. I have news for you, it's not the kids coming in there that keep your *** employed. It's the parents - you know, us folks who open the wallet and don't look like we had a fight in a paint factory?

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Sounds like a Hot Topic, and one that I could relate to. When I was a kid (read, when I was in college and had no money), they had this Sonic the Hedgehog shirt I wanted. It was cool, it was brown vintage looking shirt and I, being a huge Sonic the Hedgehog nerd, of course wanted it.

Now that I have a job, they don't carry it anymore. Bastards!!!

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

That's the place.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I'd be pretty happy if every Hot Topic in the world burned down.

Burning down the nearest Hot Topic is how you get rid of vampires.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

But is that more effective at getting rid of the Sanguinarian Vampire, perse?

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

LMAO, when you described the asshat, I knew it was a Hot Topic.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

It sounds to me like the guy needed a couple 9mm piercings.

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"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice R. Longworth

"Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the gun." - Ash Williams

Nah, bullets cost money.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

1. I didn't realize you were that (teenage daughter) old. I figured you were slightly closer to my age.

2. You should consider giving up law enforcement for a career as a professional expositor of vitriol, based on the content of that piece.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

I think he should be a professional suppositor of vitriol.

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The Dude abides.

Hot Topic used to be a good store until around 2000 I guess - maybe a little later.

I can't find decent fangs or pale makeup or any cologne that smells like freshly dug earth.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I am still amazed that every mini-generation still buys into the hype of gotta have fad items. Go, all of thee, and rent or purchase The Who's movie Quadrophenia. Watch it with your preteen or early teenager and when they start to understand the message of the movie, stirke. Then tell them every generation has it's fads and there are always pathetic victims of those fads. Do they want to be an idiot trying as hard as they can to look cool and spend their allowance money on that crap, because you sure aren't buying it for them, or do they want you to put the money in their college fund instead? The right choice should be rewarded with a trip to the store to get ice cream and root beer!

All kids need to understand that the college fund reverts back to the parents unless its spent on college.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Was not sure if you where ranting about a spensors or a hot topic. Not much of a mall person, save for the Games Workshop store.

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

How old do you suppose one has to be to have a teenage child?

Well, lets see, teenage is 13, boys can start making babies around 12 + or - a couple years, depending on the kid, but lets say 12. I've known a 26 year old grandfather, but only one. Most early grandparents wait until they are around 30-35. My wife was 35 when our daughter was born. Her best friend at work became a grandmother at the same time my daughter was born. Grandmother and new mother were about three months apart in age, and my wife was the oldest of the two.

!'m 54, my daughter is 18, I can wait until after I retire before she starts breeding, I'm in no rush.

Then again, who know, I may marry and start having more kids, my dad did at about my age. I almost certainly won't, but it could happen. Yes, marriage would be a vital and necessary part of that equation.

derailed, sorry about that.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Thirty. Well, technically my friend's mother was 28 when he turned thirteen, but I really didn't see much of him until we were in high school.

Then again, my parents didn't have kids at all until they were close to thirty, neither did my brother, and I haven't broken the mold. So I generally expect the parents of teenagers to be around forty.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I would guess that a 48 year old would be old enough to have a 13 year old daughter. 43 at the youngest. I'd call a person crazy for having children before they were 30 unless they were very financially secure.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

For teenagers, that isn't part of the thought process.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I'm 34. She's my adopted daughter, and my wife's biological daughter. My wife was a rape victim.



There may be more money in that.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

People who have children after thirty have reproduced late. Generally speaking, people start having kids at some point in their twenties.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Had my first at 21...definitely crazy. But totally worth it.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Technically the minimum age is probably around 25. I've heard 1st-hand accounts that would put it at 26.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

It's not that crazy. That's pretty much when most people still seem to start having kids.

Thanks Timmit.
I agree with DFK though...I didn't really become a fully mature adult until about age 25.
If you can wait til you are 25, for most people, I think that is a good age.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth